Entropic narratives are in their own way highly directive: they accomplish a straightforward reversal of narratives of “progress.” That is, while entropic plotting is productive, capable of generating an intriguing variety of abhuman possibilities, gothic entropy can be seen as a traditional narrative structure: it moves steadily, without detour or interruption, towards a telos, albeit the negative telos of loss of specificity. What Wells describes by contrast in the quote above is a narrative model more consistent with Darwin's own: a model of random movement, non-directive, non-telic, aimless and errant. Eric White identifies such a narrative movement as “picaresque” (as opposed to the “comic romance” of progressivist history): “The temporal unfolding of reality is … open-ended and unpredictable, a suite of contingent circumstances rather than an inexorable march toward some predestined goal.”